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UA plans joint biotech venture with Osaka University
A delegation of 18 high-level Japanese industry, education and news organization representatives visited the UA to hear presentations and tour labs. Click here to learn more about the international memorandum of understanding that brought them here.

Three Latina scientists create CampCIENCIAS
Three program coordinators working at COP's U.S. Mexico Binational Center and Superfund Basic Research Program created a science camp to benefit high school students living on the U.S. side of the border with Mexico.

Two PhD students' research recognized
Karen Smith and Maysaa Mahmood were finalists in a poster competition at the International Society for Pharmacoeconomics and Health Outcomes Research meeting. Click here to read more about their research.

Professors tapped for teaching award
Four COP professors are receiving this year's Innovation in Teaching Award, thanks to a little improv comedy in the classroom. Click here to learn more.

New grads shine
COP released 84 graduates into the wide world this spring. A faculty member, preceptor and many students also received awards at the college's convocation ceremony. Click here to read more about the graduates and award winners.

Five lauded for outstanding achievements
The bells tolled for five COPers this academic year. Click here to read more.

Pulido conference room dedicated
Friends and family of Mary and Charlie Pulido celebrated a dedication ceremony at COP in Mary's honor. Click here to read more.

Student pharmacists help at refugee clinic
Pharmacy students recently began helping out at a clinic for refugees that is staffed entirely by volunteer medical students and physicians. Click here to learn more.

Medication Management Center teams with WellPoint NextRx
The college's Medication Management Center will provide medication therapy management to thousands of WellPoint NextRx participants throughout 2008. Click here to read more.

Erstad first pharmacist to receive SCCM Master Clinician/Teacher Award
Brian Estad, professor and assistant department head, Pharmacy Practice and Science, is the first pharmacist ever to receive the Society of Critical Care Medicine's Shubin-Weil Master Clinician/Teacher Award.

Hurley to receive AACP Dawson Biotechnology Award
Laurence Hurley, professor of medicinal chemistry, Pharmacology and Toxicology, and associate director of the BIO5 Institute, will be recognized by the American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy with the Paul R. Dawson Biotechnology Award. Hurley will receive the honor during the 2008 AACP Annual Meeting and Seminars in Chicago July 19-23.

Dean to receive Remington medal
Dean J. Lyle Bootman will receive the 2008 Remington Honor Medal, widely considered the profession’s highest honor, in March.

Golf tourney to fund new scholarship
This Leap Day, enjoy a golf scramble, and contribute to a scholarship honoring the memory of alumnus Jason Gilray.

Pharmacists among the most trusted
Americans rate pharmacists among the professionals most respected for their honesty and ethical standards, a USA Today/Gallup poll affirms.

PharmD tuition to go up
Two changes to tuition were approved by the Arizona Board of Regents in December that will make it more expensive for students to get a degree in pharmacy at The University of Arizona beginning next fall.

2 profs lauded for achievements
UA will recognize the recent achievements Brian Erstad and Laurence Hurley by ringing the bell of USS Arizona in their honor Dec. 19.

Pharmacy students, high schoolers team up
COP PharmD students worked with Catalina Magnet High School students this semester--one of their projects will be teaching second- and third-graders about lead poisoning Dec. 6.

Undergrads interested in pharmacy careers
Approximately 500 of undergraduates at UA list prepharmacy as their major, making it one of the top majors on campus. Click to find out more about becoming qualified for pharmacy studies and Prepharmacy Club.

Matthias becomes clinical assistant professor
UA alumna Kathryn Matthias has joined the Department of Pharmacy Practice and Science.

Lee joins COP as clinical assistant professor
Jeannie Lee, recently of Walter Reed Army Medical Center, has joined the College of Pharmacy as a clinical assistant professor.

College hires new medicinal chemistry professor
Chris Hulme has joined the Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology as an associate professor of medicinal chemistry.

Pharmacy hires Mayo Clinic researcher
Eric Snyder comes to the college from the Mayo Clinic College of Medicine in Rochester, Minn., where he has been an assistant professor of medicine.

Herrier first to earn Jacob award
The first recipient of the Danny and Rae Jacob Award for Pharmacy Practice is faculty member Rick Herrier.

Erstad to receive two awards
Pharmacy Practice and Science Professor Brian Erstad will take home two awards this fall. Click here to read about them.

Customized Medicine topic of public lecture
Do your genes determine what drugs work best for you? How does genetic information help your doctor know what drugs will be effective? The head of the pharmaceutical department at renowned St. Jude Children's Research Hospital will answer these and other questions about using genetic information to tailor drugs to the individual.

Researchers seek early detection of type 2 diabetes
Adult-onset, or type 2, diabetes is the target of a collaborative research project involving scientists from The University of Arizona and Arizona State University.

Many thanks, department head tells troops
Commending them for their accomplishments, the head of Pharmacy Practice and Science said "thank you" to department members for their hard work as a team with a special luncheon Aug. 17.

View Text of Venom Week Proclamation
Read the text of the proclamation declaring Venom Week in Tucson.

Mayor proclaims Venom Week
Tucson's mayor proclaimed Sept. 2-8 as Venom Week in the city. The week coincides with an international conference sponsored by UA entities, also called Venom Week, that will bring experts from around the world to our city.

Compounds donated to UA Foundation by Procter & Gamble
The Procter & Gamble Company (NYSE: PG) has donated to the University of Arizona (UA) Foundation 33 patents and accompanying intellectual property related to a portfolio of compounds that have been tested in preclinical studies and potentially may have application in the treatment of cancer, HIV and hepatitis C. Further research on these compounds will be conducted by the UA College of Pharmacy and the Arizona Cancer Center. Currently, millions of people worldwide suffer from cancer, HIV and hepatitis C.